Prayer for Our Children
When my youngest son was one year old he came down with a high fever. I was all alone and it was very late at night. He was never sick like this before, and I did not know what to do. There was a nurse that lived down the block from us, but it was so late at night to call her. As I held him close to me in my arms, he went limp and his eyes rolled back in his head. I started to cry out to Jesus, asking Him to help him. The only words I could make out were to yell, “help, Lord!” Within minutes my son sat up in my arms, no more fever, and he smiled at me. I just sat there loving him and thanking Jesus for healing him. This precious child laid in my arms was smiling up at me as if he were never sick. Prayer does work, so don’t stop praying for your children! God watches over them for us, you can never know what tomorrow might bring. He has answered my prayers for all my children. What would I have done without the Lord?!
1 Samuel 1:9-11
9-So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord.
10-And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.
11-And she vowed a vow, and said, “O Lord of hosts, if Thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.”
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Matthew 15:22-28
22-And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.”
23-But He [Jesus] answered her not a word. And His disciples came and besought Him, saying, “Send her away; for she crieth after us.”
24-But He answered and said, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25-Then came she and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
26-But He answered and said, “It is not proper to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.”
27-And she said, “Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
28-Then Jesus answered and said unto her, “O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.” And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Exodus 2:2-3
2-And the woman conceived, and bare a son; and when she saw him, that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months.
3-And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
Psalm 127:3-5
3-Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
4-As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
5-Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
John 17:9-10
9-[Jesus said] “I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine.
10-And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them.”
Isaiah 66:13
[Thus saith the Lord] “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”